Heinz Reinefarth

Heinz Reinefarth (26 December 1903-7 May 1979) was a Gruppenfuhrer of the SS during World War II. Although his forces committed several war crimes during the quelling of the Warsaw Uprising in 1944, he was never charged with war crimes.

Biography
Heinz Reinefarth was born on 26 December 1903 in Gnesen, Province of Posen, German Empire (present-day Gniezno, Poland). He joined the SS and the Nazi Party in 1932 and was promoted to SS-Brigadefuhrer on 20 April 1942 during World War II. On 29 January 1944 he was assigned as SS and Police Leader in Reichsgau Wartheland (Poznan Voivodeship) and took part in the quelling of the Warsaw Uprising later that year; alongsid Oskar Dirlewanger, Reinefarth executed 60,000 Polish civilians in the Wola Massacre. In December 1944, Reinefarth was given command of the XVIII SS Corps in Kustrin, and in March 1945 Adolf Hitler had him arrested and sentenced to death for retreating from Kustrin rather than defending it to the last man. After the war, he was acquitted of war crimes due to lack of evidence and died in 1979.